Hi,
I am not sure if this will help but wanted to provide some possibly related info about my maternal Grandfather:-
* My grandfather was Andrew John Millard - born 1903 - in Wiltshire ( I believe he lived in Monkton Deverille, and at a later point in Maiden Bradley).
* He said his father was a gameskeeper. At one point
he recounted having to take his father to Bath for
treatment of rheumatoid Arthritis(?). My
grandfather also suffered from fairly severe arthritis
and eczema.
* During the First World War he was in an accident, being on the
running board of a vehicle carrying Australian troops that
crashed. His right knee was ruined.
* He had a younger brother ( Robert ) who had an accident while
young and had one of his eyes removed at a military hospital.
* In the early 1920's he moved to Australia and worked shooting
and trapping on the WA Wheatbelt. Later he worked in the
South West with a team laying train tracks.
* In the early 1930's he married Opal Dora Bilston, and they
moved back to England and lived in Maiden Bradley. While there
they had a son ( John Moreton Millard ).
* Moving back to Australia ( either late 30's or early 40's ) they
bought a farm on the edge of Denmark, WA. They named
the farm Dunford Valley.
* Both Andrew John Millard ( referred to as Jack ), and his
wife passed away in 1993, and their ashes were interred
by their son John in a wall at the Denmark cemetery.
All the best,
Simon Long